Swamp = K. Kautsky, Guésdist, etc.
The significance of the distinction between Plekhanov, Hyndman,
Heine and K. Kautsky, Vandervelde, etc. 2
Eclecticism instead of dialectics. The "middle ground": "reconciliation" of extremes, absence of clear, determinate, sharp conclusions, wavering.
Reconciliation and dulling of class contradictions
Reconciliation with opportunism.
Obscuring of the theoretical and practical-political gulf with opportunism,
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NOTEBOOK "α" ("ALPHA")
Apostasy (renegadism) from the standpoint of "The Road to Power" and from
The distinction between the concepts of "Marxist center" (= independent politics, independent ideas, independent theory) and "swamp" (= wavering, lack of principle, "revolving door" ("Drehscheibe"), weathervane).
Illegal organization.
Work in the military.
Support and development of mass actions.
NB
"Proletariat" and "class struggle" in general.
"Process"
NB
Not
The possibility of a fusion of socialism and syndicalism upon division along a new and deeper line.
Parliamentarism and a different conception of it. "Illegal parliamentarism".